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(No Model.)

SKID.

Patented Nov. 13, 18783.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

srEWAEr TAYLOR, or HYDE PAEII, ILLINoIs.

SKID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent .No 288,276, Vdated. November 13, 1883. Application tied Apn'i 11,1883. (NQ model.)

To osZZ whom 15 may con/cern: Be it known that I, STEWART TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hyde Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,l have invented a certain new and useful Improved Skid, which, is fully described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of Io my improved skid; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional View, taken at the line a a, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the end of one of thefrails, showing a side vierv of the end piece and end of the web. Fig.4is aseoy tional View of a portion of one of the end pieces and rail and web, showing the manner in which the end piece is attached to the web; and Fig. 5 isa transverse seotionalview of the web and rail, showing a modified form of the 2o rails 'of the skid.y

The same letters denote the same parts in all the iigures.

The object of my invention is to make a light, strong, cheap, and durable skid, to be A'25 used in handling heavy articles in loading and unloading Wagons, cars, and for analogous purposes; and 'my invention consists in a metallic skid having rails, on which the freight rests, supported and strengthened by a metallic web, 3o and also in attaching to the ends of the rails and web end pieces, which are hereinafter fully described; land it also consists in eomA bining with the web the braces in the manner hereinafter fully speciied.

To enable others to understand fully the construction and operation of my invention, I will .describe the same with particularity.

A represents the rails of the skid, or that portion of a skid on which the articles that 4o are being loaded and unloaded rest. These rails 'are metallic rails.

B are metallic webs, connected to the under side of the rails in such a manneras to strengthen them' and keep them from bending when supporting heavyweights. In Figs. 1 and 2 the rails are shown in tubular form, slotted lengthwise on one side, which slot receivesthe edge of the web, and the Webs and rails are connected together by means of rivets or bolts Y 5o C, passing through them. These'rails may be rolled with the web in the form shown in Fig. 5, when the rivets or bolts can be dispensed with, excepting the one which secures the end pieces, hereinafter specilied, to saidweb and rail.

D are hooked end pieces, which are secured cure the two webs of the skid together, and

are made in such form as to hold them vertical to-each other. The form of these braces is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the draW1 ings. These are of metal, and preferably made of malleable iron, and cast With shoulders F near their ends, and passing through holes in the Webs, and then the ends Gr are headed down, vas clearly shown, 'making a permanent attachment, and each brace being connected 1with the'webs at four points, bracing the webs at both top and bottom, so-as to hold them solidly in place.

The rails at the opposite end from that to which the hooked end pieces are attached are attened, as shown at h h, for the purpose of more readily receiving and delivering freight that is passed upon them.-

There are great numbers of these skids used in handling freight-such as boxes, barrels,

te-and it is very important that they should r be strong, light, and durable.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp l. The rails .A and Webs B in a skid, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The rails A and Webs B and hooked end pieces, D, in a skid, substantially as specified and shown.` Y

3. The rails A and Webs B and braces E, combined and operating in the skid, substantially as specified and shown.

STEWART TAYLOR. Witnessesz L. L. Continu, JN0. C. MAcGEEooE. 

